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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How did you get pics from inside Mozilla HQ? What a shitshow of a company at this point.

Im grateful to the people there keeping Firefox alive, but at this point they should consider splitting off from Mozilla and maintaining a fork or just joining the librewolf team.

[–] loaExMachina 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I installed Palemoon because it's more independent from Firefox, having forked longer ago, but what I'm really looking forward to is for a usable browser to come from the Servo project.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@loaExMachina @unexposedhazard I have Pale Moon installed for testing purposes but as a general use browser it's pretty useless on the modern web since the developer REFUSES to allow it to support the Widevine plug-in making it useless for watching streaming video. It won't even load YouTube videos properly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not supporting DRM on the web is a concious choice I support, you should have base Firefox for your proprietary tech consumptions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

The lack of sandboxing is concerning though. Regardless of DRM needs. After all a web browser is basically a JavaScript runtime environment that runs code from all over the web. Having that not be sandboxed is a serious risk, even on operating systems like Linux where applications generally run with restricted privileges.